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The Jerusalem Diet: The "One Day" Approach to Reach Your Ideal Weight--and Stay There
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The Jerusalem Diet is a remarkably simple and flexible plan that will transform your perspective on food, diets, and health. You?ll rediscover how to relax and enjoy life, moving steadily toward your ideal weight while still taking pleasure in the foods you love.
Publishers Description
The Jerusalem Diet is a remarkably simple and flexible plan that will transform your perspective on food, diets, and health. You'll rediscover how to relax and enjoy life, moving steadily toward your ideal weight while still taking pleasure in the foods you love.
SIMPLE: No expensive foods, supplements, or exercise equipment required. All you need is a good digital scale, a calendar, some basic food items available at any grocery store, and a willingness to “lighten up”–physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
GUILT-FREE: This easy-to-follow plan frees you to stop counting calories, agonizing over menu choices, and pursuing extreme exercise programs. Instead, you'll learn how to lose weight while still eating the foods you love and enjoying life to the fullest.
LIFE-CHANGING: The Jerusalem Diet reenergizes not only your body but also your outlook on life. As you move toward your ideal weight–one day at a time, one pound at a time–you will feel better, look better, and live better.
Developed by a busy pastor who loves food and admits to a lack of self-control when it comes to eating, The Jerusalem Diet is designed to work for anyone who can manage to stay on a diet for just 24 hours. If you want to shed pounds and keep them off–without starvation, deprivation, or frustration–this is the plan you've been waiting for.
Ted Haggard, the author of nine books including Foolish No More!, is a well-respected leader whose influence has been recognized by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, the BBC, and PBS, among others. He serves as senior pastor of the 11,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, which he founded in 1985. Ted and his wife, Gayle, are the parents of five children.
A BALANCED DIET (THAT INCLUDES FOODWE LIKE)
This book is for people who love to eat. This book is for people who appreciate diet, exercise, and nutrition books but have a deep-rooted problem with their humanity. This book is for people who want to be healthy but are not willing to give up their lives.
This book is for people who are willing to improve, but it's got to be easy.
It's for people who like to smile. It's for people who are okay with looking the way they look while also aiming to improve their health and appearance. It's for people who eat ice cream in the dark. It's for people who sneak a Venti Mocha Frappuccino and then do penance for three days.
It's for people who live in perpetual guilt–or at least should live in perpetual guilt.
Okay, I've been munching on my room-service lunch as I've been writing, and now I am so full I can hardly sit up. Good thing it's an on-target day for me.
I wasn't kidding about loving Jelly Bellies and french fries. Of course I know if I eat those things in any way proportional to my affection for them, I won't feel very good. And they may kill me. I might even stop enjoying them so much, and I would really hate that.
So I've discovered a balance. I've discovered a way to enjoy life, enjoy food, be reasonable about my health, and at the same time maintain my work schedule and an energetic family and social life.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ME: DIETS WORK, I DON'T
I am not overweight, but I could be. Both my parents were well beyond a healthy weight. My dad died of a heart attack when he was fifty-eight. When my mom died, she had diabetes, arthritis, and numerous other diseases exacerbated by her obesity. If I want to improve my chances of keeping my health and living my full life span, I have to pay attention. But I'm weak. I'm undisciplined. I'm not the perfect man on the cover of Men's Health. I don't have time to live at the gym.
But after implementing the Jerusalem Diet, I'm not out of shape. According to my doctor, I'm a picture of health. Given my love of food, my enjoyment of sleep, and my fondness for lazy Saturdays lounging in pajamas all day, I could easily be in trouble. Without the ideas you'll find in this book, I might be obese.
I need a diet that is doable, not for some highly motivated guy who cares about the microbiology of digestion, but for me–an average guy wanting to live a good life. I need a plan I don't have to think about all the time. I need a plan I won't quit just because I drive past a Wendy's.
I was on the Atkins diet for a year–every day until noon. Why? Because I have many business lunches and meals with friends. It's too hard for a guy like me to ditch 90 percent of the carbs. I like bread. I also like pasta. I can live without them, but I can't live well without them.
I also failed at Atkins because of bedtime snacks. I'm like a ten-year-old– I have to snack before bedtime. Usually it's just a bowl of cereal, but sometimes I like yogurt or a toasted cheese sandwich or a plate of beanie weenies with bread and butter and a cold glass of milk. This really messes up the Atkins plan.
Atkins works. I don't.
South Beach works. I don't.
The Maker's Diet works. I don't.
When I hear the health-food crowd talk about tofu burgers and puréed yam soup and whole wheat udon, it makes my taste buds hide. I start thinking that an early death really might not be that bad after all. My taste buds scream, “We want pleasure!” And my intestines cry out, “We want to be clean but not that clean!”
I know all about making and breaking resolutions. I have an advanced education concerning commitment and failure. I'm a pastor. I teach people that the ancient scriptures tell them to be kind to one another, and they nod in agreement. Then, within a month, two of those who nodded are in my office talking about suing one another. I tell people that life will go better for them if they'll get up every morning and pray, and they are all for it. Some of them will actually do it, some never will, and most will try and stop and try and stop and try and stop. People are people. We are the problem.
It's the same with diet and health. We are the problem. Throw a rock and you'll hit a diet book that would really help you. Spend ten minutes on Google, and you'll have a wealth of nutrition information to help shape your eating habits. You can get the facts, but you might not be able to apply them. Those red Jelly Bellies taste too good. (Who makes Jelly Bellies, anyway? They should win a Nobel Prize for making a product that good ! ) Or, if Jelly Bellies don't do it for you, name your weakness. Ice cream? Soda? French fries? Caramel corn? Chocolate?
Yeah, thanks to loads of diet-and-nutrition guides, we know how to solve the problem of our eating habits. But we probably won't. Most of the solutions are too dramatic. Surgery might help, but it hurts. Ow! And for me, most diets ask too much. They change our lifestyles 100 percent too quickly, and we don't have the time, patience, or willpower for 100 percent change. So we lose weight and gain weight; we exercise every day and then don't hit the gym for a month; we eat proteins and veggies and then buy stock in Häagen-Dazs.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? I have a solution. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 208
Dimensions: Length: 9.38" Width: 6.2" Height: 0.85"
Weight: 0.86 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Dec 13, 2005
Publisher WaterBrook Press
ISBN 1400072204
EAN 9781400072200
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 | Good diet Nov 5, 2006 |
| Regardless of his other problems I think this diet is very doable. Who can't loose 1 lb a week. With this plan you don't have to be obcessed with what you are eating. You just have to be careful. | | | | I Have Hope! Sep 6, 2006 |
| I have tried years of dieting, exercise, read and tried all the major diet books, you name it, and I when I heard Ted Haggard speak in Boston in February, I was very skeptical. One more diet book, I thought. I went ahead and purchased it anyway, and it took me two months to even open the cover. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down! I read until 2:00 am and began to cry. I felt hope for the first time in years that this was the answer to my struggle. Well, it's been 5 months, and I have lost 36 lbs and my husband has lost 20! I feel I can live with this plan for the rest of my life and continue to lose the weight I need to lose. It has been an answer to my prayers. | | | | NOT REALLY A DIET, A LIFESTYLE CHANGE Aug 10, 2006 |
| The book was an easy read and very easy to understand with only a few main points to follow to get you on your way to a new slimmer you!!! I enjoyed all the stories and antedots but most of all I enjoy the new me!! Thank you Ted for this wonderful new way to look at eating, enjoy it to the max and live one day at a time while learning to discipline yourself. If you are looking for quick results stay away but if you are looking for a new, better way of life then get this book, you will love yourself for it. | | |  | Liked the book and the concept Jul 30, 2006 |
| I needed a "diet" that I could live with and still enjoy food. Although the author is not an expert in dieting or nutrition, he gave me the incentive to monitor my weight on a daily basis, exercise daily, control my food intake on "fat days" and basically commit to eating right and making healthy choices. I can say that I have lost thirteen pounds because of this "life style change" over a two month time and didn't have to starve myself or eat unfamiliar, hard to find or hard to make foods. I still can eat my favorites like chocolate covered raisons and not feel guilty about it. I just know that I'll probably have to commit to a "fat day" if I pig out too much. I now know when to cut myself off. All I can say is that the author suggests you read other diet books and take the good out of every book you read. My best advice from all the books I've read is what we all hate to hear but, eat less, exercise more and make more healthy food choices like fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Until they come out with a miracle weight loss pill a life style change is all that's really going to work. This book was my miracle and I'll continue to recommend it to anyone who will listen. | | | | Doable without living in a straight-jacket Mar 29, 2006 |
Pastor and author Ted Haggard's diet goals are reachable. Lose weight without broadcasting your diet to everyone. Enjoy eating the foods you like. Lose one pound a week. Exercise, but not past your ability. Avoid complex diets and exercise regimens. Get fit - get healthy - have fun.
The first chapter of The Jerusalem Diet is a gem, a paean to the joys of eating: jelly beans, hamburgers, Mountain Dew, and Haagen-Daz. Then Haggard comes back down to earth and tells how, after enjoying the festive food at a conference in Jerusalem, his pants became too tight. He decided to eat the nutritious foods available in all the Israeli restaurants: seeds, nuts, fruits, and vegetables. He swam laps in the hotel pool. In one day his pants fit. Thus The Jerusalem Diet was born, those four foods and exercise, one day a week. You aim to lose only one pound a week, eating, within reason, what you like for most of the week.
As the book progresses Haggard, using himself as an example, gets down to the nitty-gritty of the diet. What you are actually aiming for is to change your eating habits, slowly, so that you end up eating all those good healthy foods the other diets try to crash you onto, but still at times enjoying the conviviality and fun of delicious, but not so healthy foods. He clearly explains his diet principles step-by-step, suggests you tailor exercise to your abilities and needs, gives suggestions for breaking substance and food addictions, and looks at juicing, shopping habits, and getting good rest. Haggard amply illustrates his points with little bios from Jerusalem Dieters' experiences, from those who lost a little weight to those who lost very large amounts.
There is a lot of good advice in this book. The diet is doable without forcing the dieter into a straight-jacket way of life. Many questions are considered. The book ends, "So that's it - the Jerusalem Diet...Now let's go to Dairy Queen!" (177). The Jerusalem Diet is fun to read, upbeat and encouraging. I think I'll put away my ice cream and try it. - Donna Eggett, Christian Book Previews.com
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